Teo Gebert

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Teo Gebert (born 2 September 1974) is an Australian actor who has appeared in numerous film, television and theatre roles, best known as a regular presenter of Play School.

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Personal life

Gebert comes from a theatrical background. , "... my father is a musician, my mother an actor, my uncle an actor, my grandfather ran theatres and my grandmother had dreams of being a ballerina when she was a little girl." [1] His mother Helen Livermore is Reg Livermore's sister and his father, Bobby is a jazz musician. [2]

Theatre

Gebert made his stage debut in Reg Livermore's musical Big Sister in 1990 [3] Further performances as listed on AusStage [4]

Film

Gebert made his film debut in Fatal Bond alongside Linda Blair and has appeared in Sniper: Reloaded with Billy Zane and Tom Berenger. He next had lead roles in the indie films Square One and The Venus Factory and support in The Boys . In 1998 he started his close association with director Paul Middleditch playing a demented Nazi in Terra Nova and in 2001 they wrote and collaborated on the art-house film A Cold Summer . Gebert has also appeared in Under the Radar, Safety in Numbers and starred as Elmo in the gangster comedy Crooked Business . He plays a demented prison guard in the 2017 film Emporium. [5]

Television

Gebert played numerous television roles in Family and Friends, GP, The Feds, Murder Call, Wildside, Stingers, Above the Law, Farscape, Love Bytes, Two Twisted, and The Cut. Gebert played Laurie Pendergast in Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities and Dr Lovallo on Home and Away . Gebert has been a regular presenter on Play School since 2004 and in 2012 did a spin-off show called Little Ted's Big Adventures. He's appeared in the web series Avalon Now [6] and Avalon Now 2. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Presenters Playschool Teo". ABC. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Bobby GEbert". The Australian Jazz Agency. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "Big Sister - A Larrikin Opera 29 April 1990". AusStage. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  4. ↑ "Teo Gebert Male Australian Actor". AusStage. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Emporium (2017)". IMDb. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  6. ↑ "Domain branded entertainment series pokes fun at residents of well-to-do Sydney suburb 30 September 2015". Mumbrella. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  7. ↑ "Avalon Now Series 2". Domain. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
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